v. Obs. [f. BE- 1 + TAINT.] trans. To tinge. Hence (short for betainted) ppl. a.

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1594.  Carew, Tasso (1881), 60. Her beguil[d]ed lockes this slightest wound with some few drops, such wise betainted red, As gold growes ruddie.

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1598.  Greene, James IV. (1861), 193. Where every wean is all betaint with blood.

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